Andrea Kosavic holds a Master of Information Studies from University of Toronto and achieved doctoral candidacy in the Communication & Culture program at York University. During her time with York University Libraries, she has focused on scholarly communications initiatives including actively serving on the Open Access Open Data Steering Committee and the Open Education Steering Committee, where she contributed to advancing the institutional Research Data Management Strategy and the institutional Open Access Policy. She founded both the York Digital Journals publishing program and the YorkSpace institutional repository. Andrea recently completed her term as co-chair of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Open Repositories Working Group and is a member of the Ontario Council of University Libraries Scholars Portal Committee, the ORCID Canada Advisory Committee, and the Jane Finch Community Research Partnership Steering Committee. She has served on the Public Knowledge Project Members Committee, the Public Knowledge Project Education Group, the OCUL Library Research Cloud Committee, the Synergies Canada National Technical Committee, and as an Ontario Library Information Technology Association Councillor (2010-2012). She was also co-founder of the Ontario Council of University Libraries Publishing/Hosting Community. Her research interests include: scholarly communication; publishing; copyright; gift economies; social capital, and interoperability.